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...Teatro alla Scala's sparkling inauguration in Milan on Dec. 7 was a triumphant return to form. Italy 's bel mondo turned out to see maestro Riccardo Muti conduct Italian composer Antonio Salieri's Europa Riconosciuta (Europa Revealed) - which hadn't been performed since its original production for La Scala's inauguration in 1778. If you didn't manage to snag a 32,000 super-prima ticket, there are repeat performances until mid-January. But it was the renovated theater, restored to its 18th century magnificence and technologically catapulted into the 21st century after $81.3 million and 30 months, that...
...REOPENED. LA SCALA, celebrated Italian opera house; after a three-year, $81 million renovation; in Milan. The event drew 2,000 VIPs, including Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and actress Sophia Loren, and featured a performance of Antonio Salieri's Europa Revealed, La Scala's inaugural opera...
...Beautiful Voice, Good Legs The 25-year career of Italian tenor Franco Corelli, who died in October, took him from La Scala in Milan to the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, where he performed on 368 occasions [MILESTONES, Nov. 10]. In an April 6, 1962, profile we traced his climb to opera's heights...
...start studying singing until he was 24 and learned most of what he knows by listening to recordings of famous singers. His professional career was begun 'by pure good luck' when he got the chance to sing opposite Maria Callas in Spontini's La Vestale on a La Scala opening night. For a while Corelli's extracurricular antics?he punched a spectator he thought had insulted him, stabbed basso Boris Christoff with a stage sword?drew attention away from his sizable gifts as a singer ... In Italy bobby-soxers periodically mob him at the stage door, and there is every...
...bring guests to either Scala or the Harbour Grill if you're looking to show off Hong Kong's most fashionable rooms?you'll want Spoon for that. But if you're entertaining people who love fine food, you're in for a surprisingly good time at any of them. With any luck, there'll be more culinary discoveries over the coming year, too. It certainly couldn't be any worse than the last...